Commentary
The jobs report on May 6 seemed like good news (3.6 percent unemployment) until you look at the details: “The U.S. labor force shrank by 363,000 people in April from a month earlier, the Labor Department said Friday. The labor force participation rate, or the share of American adults working or looking for a job, ticked down to 62.2% in April from 62.4% in March.” The devastation of the lockdowns is still with us: a demoralized workforce, women with kids slow to come back due to a childcare shortage, men having scaled back their professional ambitions to live off savings and accumulate debt, plus a general disruption of the liturgy of life that has not fixed itself.
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